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Create & Sell NFT Fashion For AR & The Metaverse

VRScout

With up to 45,000 different combinations, you can create multiple lines of NFT fashion. AR is changing the fashion industry in ways we could have never imagined thanks to tools like Len Studio that allow creators to combine cloth physics, refraction math, full-body tracking, and collision data to bring clothing to life in a digital form. The Fabricant is looking to push the fashion world even further with the launch of Season One of The Fabricant Studio , a revolutionary platform that will let y

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The Virtual and IRL Verses of the Metaverse

AR Insider

After unpacking our 2022 predictions, we return to the factors and dynamics driving spatial computing as we enter a new year. The latest report excerpt dives into the machinations of the metaverse. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Snap, OZ, and Universal Pictures Host Virtual J.Lo and Maluma Concert

ARPost

It’s been too long since we had a good virtual concert. Fortunately, Snap, OZ, and Universal Pictures are about to deliver. Jennifer Lopez and Maluma will be performing a virtual concert to an audience of Bitmoji viewers on February 3 at 5 PM PST/ 8 PM EST in anticipation of the upcoming Marry Me. A Quick Look at “Marry Me”. This article isn’t a promotion for the film (streaming only on Peacock on February 11), but to really understand some of the elements of the experience, some set-up might be

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Watching The Olympics In VR Should Not Be This Hard

VRScout

Why is the most important sporting event in history also one of the most difficult to enjoy in VR? The 2022 Winter Olympic Games are just around the corner, which means many of us have already begun planning our Olympic viewing schedules. Thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, however, most of us were forced to cancel our much-anticipated biennial watch parties.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.

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‘Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister’ Coming to SteamVR Headsets in March

Road to VR

Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister launched on Quest in late 2020, later coming to Rift with cross-buy in mid-2021. Now the epic action-shooter is slated to leave Meta platform exclusivity starting next month. Pixel Toys today announced that Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister is coming to SteamVR headsets on March 8th. In Battle Sister you take on the forces of Chaos with a host of typical Warhammer accouterment, spanning everything from Chainswords and grenade launchers, to powerful Acts of Faith

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Over 50,000 Tesla Vehicles Recalled Over ‘Intentional Design Choices That Are Unsafe’

GizModo VR

Tesla will have to recall 53,822 of its U.S. vehicles equipped with its Full Self Driving beta over concerns the software may encourage vehicles to engage in rolling stops at intersections. According to the recall, software functionality in FSD in some cases could allow vehicles to travel through intersections at up… Read more.

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Cisco AR Holograms, The Call Of The Future

Charlie Fink

Webex is using the HoloLens and Kinnect sensor to create realistic holograms for remote collaboration.

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AMD Reports Q4 2021 and FY 2021 Earnings: Turning Silicon Into Gold

Anand Tech

As the full year 2021 earnings season rolls along, the next major chip maker out of the gate is AMD, who has been enjoying a very positive trajectory in revenue and profits over the past few years. The company has continued to build upon the success of its Zen architecture-based CPUs and APUs in both the client and server spaces, as well as a full year’s revenue for the APUs powering the hard-to-find Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

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Neo-Nazis Mostly Thrilled Joe Rogan Called Them 'Feds'

GizModo VR

Being mocked as “cowards” and “feds” by one of America’s top podcasters wasn’t as devastating a blow as it might’ve first seemed for a Hitler fan club that’s spent nearly half a decade recruiting and training perhaps hundreds of young racist men to spread white nationalist ideals with public displays of hatred and… Read more.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.

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Nissan’s ‘smellmasters’ perform odor checks on new cars

Digital Trends

Nissan employs professional "smellmasters" to ensure its new cars don't have a strange odor when the new owner climbs inside.

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Notorious Spyware Firm Reportedly Offered 'Bags of Cash' for Access to U.S. Networks

GizModo VR

A whistleblower alleges that the scandal-ridden spyware firm NSO Group once offered a telecom security company “bags of cash” to buy access to its cellular networks, ostensibly so its clients could track specific mobile users within the United States. Read more.

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Nissan’s ‘smellmasters’ perform odor checks on new cars

Digital Trends

Nissan employs professional smellmasters to ensure its new cars don't have a strange odor when the new owner climbs inside.

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How to Get Into the X-Men's Amazing Age of New Comics

GizModo VR

It’s been a few years now , but it’s hard to imagine a world without the X-Men and their fellow, now significantly merrier mutants, living their lives on the sentient island Krakoa. The Dawn of X has been very kind to mutant and reader alike, thrusting the X-Men into a level of prominence in the comics they’d not seen… Read more.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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Huawei’s $1,800 folding P50 Pocket isn’t expensive enough

Digital Trends

Huawei faces serious technological challenges at the moment, and it needs to do something different. The folding P50 Pocket needed to be more expensive.

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Here’s How to Save Wordle in Its Pure, Pre-NYT Form

GizModo VR

Users lamenting online word game Wordle’s decision to sell out to The New York Times this week may have at least one way to preserve the original game’s free, anti-money leaching spirit. Since Wordle runs in a browser, all of the game’s code is saved as plaintext on the Wordle website. That means users interested in… Read more.

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The Riddler defiles The Batman’s new character posters

Digital Trends

Ahead of next month's Dark Knight reboot, The Batman's newest character posters are defaced by symbols from the Riddler that promise to unmask the truth.

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Foundation Adds 10 Characters for Season 2, and Most of Them Are Entirely New

GizModo VR

Apple TV+’s loose adaptation of the classic Foundation sci-fi novels has just gotten a little looser. Ten new actors have been added to the cast to play 10 new characters on the show—and six of them appear to be very new, having not appeared in any of Isaac Asimov’s seven Foundation novels. Read more.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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NASA’s skywatching tips for February include a view of the Orion Nebula

Digital Trends

February's skywatching treats include a chance to catch Jupiter before it disappears for a few months, and a view of a bright Venus and the Orion Nebula.

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Human Spines Threaded Onto Posts Found at 500-Year-Old Burial Site in Peru

GizModo VR

Archaeologists working along the southern coast of Peru have unearthed nearly 200 reed posts adorned with human vertebrae. Sound macabre, but these spines on spikes may have been a response to the Colonial-period looting of graves. Read more.

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Comcast says accessibility is no longer an afterthought

Digital Trends

Comcast says that it has transitioned to a new global technology platform that puts accessibility features front and center for those who need them.

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Dune's Sci-Fi Sounds Star in This Epic Deep Dive Video

GizModo VR

Of all the people working on a film, the sound team is maybe the most invisible. If they do their job right, everything you hear is perfectly acceptable and natural. You rarely think about the work that goes into layering in dialogue, footsteps, movement, or creating sounds for things that don’t exist. It all just… Read more.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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J.J. Abrams will produce Stephen King’s Billy Summers for TV

Digital Trends

Stephen King's crime novel, Billy Summers, will be adapted for television with J.J. Abrams and other high profile producers attached. Now it just needs a home.

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As Expected, Yet Another Star Trek Show Is Incoming

GizModo VR

Back in 2019 , io9 did a round-up of all the Star Trek shows that were then in various stages of boldly going to CBS All Access. A couple years later, CBS All Access is now Paramount+, but studio’s keen interest in giving viewers as much Trek as possible is still steamrolling ahead. The latest to reportedly enter the… Read more.

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Killing Eve season 4 trailer reunites Villanelle and Eve

Digital Trends

Can either Eve or Villanelle change their true nature? Their final journey together begins in the new trailer for Killing Eve season 4.

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Astronomers Confirm a Second Trojan Asteroid Loitering in Earth’s Orbit

GizModo VR

In December 2020, astronomers stumbled upon an object that seemed to be traveling a bit ahead of us in our orbit around the Sun, but they weren’t entirely sure. New observations now confirm this suspicion, revealing the asteroid to be just the second known Earth Trojan. Read more.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?